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21	[en] ABOLITION: EXCAVATIONS AND MEMORIES OF ZÓZIMO BULBUL S BLACK CINEMA / [pt] ABOLIÇÃO: ESCAVAÇÕES E MEMÓRIAS SOBRE O CINEMA NEGRO DE ZÓZIMO BULBUL 21 September 2020 (has links) [pt] Em 1988, ano do centenário da Lei Áurea, o diretor Zózimo Bulbul realiza seu primeiro longa-metragem como diretor intitulado Abolição. O desejo de retomar narrativas negras é o gancho para a produção do documentário, que discute essa temática a partir do olhar de uma equipe formada quase exclusivamente por profissionais negros/as. O objetivo desta dissertação é investigar a obra naquele momento histórico, nos anos 1980, e entender o contexto em que se discutia os cem anos da pós-abolição da escravatura. Dentro da proposta, o filme dialoga com intelectuais, artistas, esportistas que constituíram um pensamento sobre o que é ser negro no Brasil. Tais interlocutores são também personagens do próprio filme, como Lélia Gonzalez, Thereza Santos, Abdias Nascimento, Muniz Sodré, entre outros/as. Como complemento à pesquisa, houve também um registro fílmico de curta duração a partir de entrevistas inéditas realizadas com parte da equipe do filme em 2020. A proposta desse registro é constituir um documento audiovisual com depoimentos da equipe que resgatem a atmosfera da filmagem e o contexto histórico de Abolição. / [en] In 1988, centenary of the Golden Law, Zózimo Bulbul made his first feature film as a director, called Abolição (Abolition). The desire to reclaim black narratives is the key for the production of the documentary, which discusses the topic from the perspective of a team formed exclusively by black professionals. Thus, the objective of this dissertation is to investigate the piece at that historic moment (1980s) and understand the context in which the hundred years post abolition of slavery were discussed. Within the proposition, this work dialogues with intellectuals, artists, sportsmen who will reflect about what it is to be black in Brazil. These interlocutors are also characters in the film itself, such as Lélia Gonzalez, Thereza Santos, Abdias Nascimento, Muniz Sodré, among others. In addition, a short film will be made based on unpublished interviews conducted with part of the film crew. The proposal is also to establish an audiovisual documentation with testimonials from the team that will revive the atmosphere of the filming and the historical context of Abolition. [pt] DOCUMENTARIO [pt] ZOZIMO BULBUL [pt] CINEMA NEGRO [pt] ABOLICAO [en] DOCUMENTARY [en] ZOZIMO BULBUL [en] BLACK CINEMA STUDIES [en] ABOLITION
22	Coming Out Films: Speech, Cinema, and The Making of Queer Subjects Hunter, Sam 15 July 2019 (has links) No description available. Film Studies queer queer theory queer cinema cinema studies brokeback mountain the childrens hour gods own country love, simon subjectivity
23	Fantasy of Empire: Ri Kōran, Subject Positioning and the Cinematic Contruction of Space Nagayama, Chikako 25 February 2010 (has links) This thesis emerged from my emotional, tactile, and intellectual access to the actress, Yamaguchi Yoshiko (a.k.a. Ri Kōran or Li Xianglan), who embodied the cultural hybridity of Manchuria and represented a ‘modern girl’ on screen. I analyze four wartime melodrama-adventure films, in which she co-starred with Japanese actors: Song of the White Orchid (Byakuran no uta, 1939), China Nights (Shina no Yoru, 1940), Vow in the Desert (Nessa no chikai, 1940), and Suzhou Nights (Soshū no yoru, 1941). The formation of domesticity played an integral part in the making of modern nation-states. Intertexualizing with the discursive formation of the ie (house/family) between the mid 19th and mid 20th centuries, I first demonstrate that Japanese film subjects are made to embody the imagined Imperial nation through gendered performances in Song of the White Orchid. The interior and exterior are constructed to mirror the notion of imperial nation and the Asian ‘other’. Next, I extend the analytical framework to the three films, China Nights, Vow in the Desert, and Suzhou Nights, which employ films’ specific locations for different operations of gendered and ethnicized positioning. I also pay attention to some of the climaxes, which unconventionally present psychological dramas outdoors and action scenes indoors. Especially, my interest in this part of analysis is in interrelating metaphors of bodily boundary and national border. As delineating the signification of body and nation, I situate the relay of the gaze in the simultaneous blurring of bodily boundary and national communities that coincides with melodramatic highlights located outdoors. In order to shape a Japanese imperial subject, the films symbolically negotiate with three levels of power dynamics: the establishment of a national identity, the mimicry of the West, and the significance of China in Japanese imperial modernity. The delineation of cinematic space and subject positioning in Ri Kōran’s films reveals that Chinese, Japanese and the West are constituted as shifting positions that respectively represent past/obstructions, present/a mobile agency, and future/the envisioned goal. Ri Kōran attracts spectators’ gaze and mediates multiple locations to identify with, while Japanese male protagonists embody the gaze by making his corporeality absent. Cinema Studies East Asian History Women's Studies Cultural Studies race and ethnicity imperialism colonialism modernity diaspora studies melodrama wartime films Yamaguchi Yoshiko Li Xianglan domesticity gender and sexuality hygiene subject positioning Japan China Manchuria otherness family hybridity mobility the gaze film space 0900
24	Fantasy of Empire: Ri Kōran, Subject Positioning and the Cinematic Contruction of Space Nagayama, Chikako 25 February 2010 (has links) This thesis emerged from my emotional, tactile, and intellectual access to the actress, Yamaguchi Yoshiko (a.k.a. Ri Kōran or Li Xianglan), who embodied the cultural hybridity of Manchuria and represented a ‘modern girl’ on screen. I analyze four wartime melodrama-adventure films, in which she co-starred with Japanese actors: Song of the White Orchid (Byakuran no uta, 1939), China Nights (Shina no Yoru, 1940), Vow in the Desert (Nessa no chikai, 1940), and Suzhou Nights (Soshū no yoru, 1941). The formation of domesticity played an integral part in the making of modern nation-states. Intertexualizing with the discursive formation of the ie (house/family) between the mid 19th and mid 20th centuries, I first demonstrate that Japanese film subjects are made to embody the imagined Imperial nation through gendered performances in Song of the White Orchid. The interior and exterior are constructed to mirror the notion of imperial nation and the Asian ‘other’. Next, I extend the analytical framework to the three films, China Nights, Vow in the Desert, and Suzhou Nights, which employ films’ specific locations for different operations of gendered and ethnicized positioning. I also pay attention to some of the climaxes, which unconventionally present psychological dramas outdoors and action scenes indoors. Especially, my interest in this part of analysis is in interrelating metaphors of bodily boundary and national border. As delineating the signification of body and nation, I situate the relay of the gaze in the simultaneous blurring of bodily boundary and national communities that coincides with melodramatic highlights located outdoors. In order to shape a Japanese imperial subject, the films symbolically negotiate with three levels of power dynamics: the establishment of a national identity, the mimicry of the West, and the significance of China in Japanese imperial modernity. The delineation of cinematic space and subject positioning in Ri Kōran’s films reveals that Chinese, Japanese and the West are constituted as shifting positions that respectively represent past/obstructions, present/a mobile agency, and future/the envisioned goal. Ri Kōran attracts spectators’ gaze and mediates multiple locations to identify with, while Japanese male protagonists embody the gaze by making his corporeality absent. Cinema Studies East Asian History Women's Studies Cultural Studies race and ethnicity imperialism colonialism modernity diaspora studies melodrama wartime films Yamaguchi Yoshiko Li Xianglan domesticity gender and sexuality hygiene subject positioning Japan China Manchuria otherness family hybridity mobility the gaze film space 0900
25	Det avgörande steget för kvalitetsfilmen : En studie av kvalitetsfilmsbegreppet och marknadsföring av film i Sverige / The crucial step for quality film : A study in the concept of quality film and film marketing in Sweden Hallsenius, Lianna January 2015 (has links) Denna uppsats har som mål att undersöka begreppet kvalitetsfilm och dess användning med utgångspunkt i marknadsföringskanalerna public relations, marketing management och filmfestivaler i Sverige. Uppsatsen definierar marknadsföring och beskriver hur den kan praktiseras i filmindustrin. Begreppsanalysen av kvalitetsfilm refererar till Pierre Bourdieus sociologiska texter och har en kort historisk genomgång av hur begreppet kvalitetsfilm myntades i Sverige. Sedan följer en genomgång av kvalitetsfilm i förhållande till europeisk konstfilm samt hur begreppet influerat den svenska filmbranschen idag. Uppsatsen innehåller analyser utifrån tre kvalitativa intervjuer med anställda som i någon form arbetar med kvalitetsfilm, samt litteratur kring marknadsföring av film och kvalitetsbedömning. / This study aims to examine the concept of quality film and its use on the marketing channels public relations, marketing management and film festivals in Sweden. The study also defines marketing and describes how it can be practiced in the film industry. The conceptual analysis of quality film refers to Pierre Bourdieu's sociological texts and have a brief historical review of how the concept of quality film was coined in Sweden. Then follows a review of quality films in relation to European art films, and how the concept has influenced the Swedish film industry today. The thesis contains analyzes based on three exclusive interviews with quality film workers, and literature on film marketing and estimation of quality. film studies cinema studies quality film marketing quality film distribution film festival stockholm film festival swedish film institute filmvetenskap kvalitetsfilm marknadsföring kvalitet filmdistribution filmfestival stockholms filmfestival harry schein svenska filminstitutet
26	Write or Perish : How Screenwriters Author their Careers Magnéli, Johan January 2015 (has links) The aim of the present study was to investigate how the impermanence of contract work affects working lives, self-perceptions and the career strategies of Swedish screenwriters of finding and keeping work. Furthermore, it also explored how screenwriters experience their abilities to exercise authorial leverage over media content. Introducing the concept of “career authoring” to cover different aspects of the professional lives of screenwriters such as managing a career, establishing authorship and contractual negotiations, the study was able to embrace various mind-sets and strategies for career success. Combining ethnographical studies and textual analyses the study was able to ascertain that the contingency of the Swedish film and television industries necessitates strategies to cultivate reputations, industrial visibility, consciously receive writing credits and conform to a traditional division of labour. Moreover, the study illuminated the importance of contractual negotiations for career success in terms of both retaining and wavering rights to their work. Strategies for exercise increased authorial leverage were not only confined to the script, but extended beyond the page, where the latter accentuated processes of reconfiguring traditional conceptions of screenwriters’ abilities to influence media content. screenwriters career authoring authoring authorship career strategies authorial leverage contractual negotiations swedish film industry swedish television industry cultural work cinema studies television studies manusförfattare filmvetenskap karriärsstrategier karriär strategier kontraktsförhandlingar svensk filmindustri svensk television
27	Origin Stories: Transnational Cinemas and Slow Aesthetics at the Dawn of the Anthropocene Chavez, Mercedes January 2021 (has links) No description available. Film Studies Comparative Ethnic Studies Latin American Studies Mass Media cinema studies transnational cinemas Latin America hemispheric Americas slow cinema aesthetics film studies decolonial theory Latinx studies ethnic and Indigenous studies gender environmental humanities Anthropocene
28	Horror Without End: Narratives of Fear Under Modern Capitalism González, Andrés Emil 14 December 2018 (has links) No description available. Comparative Literature Film Studies Political Science Literature African American Studies horror film criticism comparative literature cinema studies political theory gramsci ranciere Wes Craven Capitalism Narrative Horror Film 2008 Financial Crisis Marxism Cultural Studies Get Out Halloween The Crazies Politics of Film
29	Den gamle och filmen : Om den nya generationen äldre och dess plats i det cinematiska rummet. En representationsstudie / The Old Man and the (C)inema Cordischi, Camilla January 2013 (has links) Within the field of cinema studies, the question of visual representation is a fundamental pillar. An immense volume of theoretical work has been written on the subject, with various academic approaches such as feministic, postcolonial and gay/lesbian. Yet there is a large social group that seems to have been overlooked within the representational discourse: the elderly. This group of people appears to be a blind spot on the multicultural retina, too often neglected within the area of cultural studies. But as the baby boomer generation, who has always redefined the different stages of life (youth, adulthood, middle age), is entering old age, things are slowly changing. Utilizing a post-structural framework, this essay investigates the visual representation of elderly within the cinematic landscape of the western world. Since the subject is somewhat uncharted territory, a broad interdisciplinary approach is necessary where modern social gerontology meets the field of cinema studies. In a cultural context, social grouping based on age implies a distinct position versus the normative, compare to other types of minorities. Changes of sex, skin colour or sexual preference are uncommon, whereas changing age is the fate of every human being. The elderly as the “the Other” is thus every man’s future destiny. This rather unique position carries an immanent paradox since the only way to avoid the periphery in question is death. As a philosophical counterpoint to this rather dystopian outlook, Gilles Deleuze’s theory of becoming is brought into the discussion. The theoretical part of the essay ends with the ontology of age, a historical review of the field of gerontology and the concept of ageism. After a descriptive section, where contemporary examples of film and other media with old age as a main theme are identified, the analytical part of the essay ensues. With the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu as a theoretical frame of reference, a close reading of the films Avalon (Axel Petersén, 2011), About Schmidt (Alexander Payne, 2002) and RED (Robert Schwentke, 2010) are performed, emphasising aging identity and imposed age-normative behaviour. The semiotics of the aged body is discussed through Jacques Lacans mirror stage and Julia Kristevas abject theory, exemplified by the works of Donigan Cumming. The final part of the essay concerns the great eternal questions within film philosophy: life, death, time and memory, which for the elderly are not merely philosophical concerns but rather notable existential realities. Using Deleuze as a philosophical toolbox, these grand topics are illuminated with examples from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher, 2008), Amour (Michael Haneke, 2012) and Ingmar Bergmans classical works, such as Smultronstället (1957), Saraband (2003) and Gycklarnas afton (1953). Cinema studies film theory post-structuralism representation ageism old age normativity aging identity Gilles Deleuze Julia Kristeva abject Pierre Bourdieu Michael Haneke Ingmar Bergman Film filmvetenskap poststrukturalism representation ålderism ålderdom identitet normativitet Gilles Deleuze Julia Kristeva abjekt Pierre Bourdieu Michael Haneke Ingmar Bergman
30	Black Food Trucks Matter: A Qualitative Study Examining The (Mis)Representation, Underestimation, and Contribution of Black Entrepreneurs In The Food Truck Industry Ariel D Smith (14223191) 11 August 2023 (has links) <p>Food trucks have become increasingly popular over the last decade following the Great Recession of 2008. Scholars have begun to study the food truck phenomenon, its future projected trajectory, and even positioning it within social justice discourse along cultural lines; however, scholarship has yet to address the participation of Black entrepreneurs in the food truck industry.</p> <p><br></p> <p>The objective of this dissertation is to expand the perception of Black food entrepreneurs within the food truck industry by interrogating how Black food truck owners are misrepresented, under analyzed, and underestimated. Using a series of interdisciplinary qualitative methods including introspective analysis, thematic coding analysis, and case studies, I approach this objective by addressing three questions. First, I analyze movies and television to understand where Black-owned food trucks are represented in popular culture and how they are depicted. In doing so, we come to understand that Black business representation, specifically Black food truck representation consistently falls victim to negative stereotypes. These stereotypes can influence the extent to which Black food truck owners are taken seriously and seen as legitimate business leaders in their community. Second, I interview 16 Black food truck entrepreneurs to understand why the mobile food industry appealed to them and how it has become a platform for them to explore other opportunities. Finally, I review eight cities that have launched Black food truck festivals and parks within the last 6 years to gain an understanding of the collective power wielded by Black food truck owners and its impact Black communities. Moreover, this dissertation challenges the myth that collectivism does not exist among Black entrepreneurs and the Black community broadly.</p> Business systems in context Food and hospitality services Business and labour history Entrepreneurship Cinema studies Screen media Digital heritage Heritage and cultural conservation Heritage collections and interpretations Social and cultural anthropology Urban community development Sociology of inequalities Urban sociology and community studies Media studies Consumption and everyday life Cultural and creative industries Cultural studies of nation and region Culture, representation and identity Screen and media culture Food Truck food trucks Black owned Black owned food truck mobile food street food street food vending street food entrepreneurship Black food Black food truck studies food truck studies African American Studies African American foodways Black foodways Black food entrepreneurship Black movies Black television The Food Truck Scholar The Food Truck Scholar Podcast Black business Black businesses Barbershop 3 The Last OG The Chi Think Like a Man food truck festivals food truck park foodtruck Roi Choi The Great Food Truck Race Chef Chef movie Black representation Black men Black women Black men representation Black women representation critical race theory case study introspective analysis Black entrepreneurs African American entrepreneurs food truck industry mobile food vending Black food truck owner Black food truck entrepreneur food truck owner food truck operator food trucker Black food trucker African American food truck owner African American food trucker food truck podcast food truck show storytelling African American storytelling Black studies africana studies entrepreneurial storytelling food studies Black food studies African American food studies enterprise food truck enterprise Black food trucks matter Black businesses matter Buy Black Black dollars Black economics Black dollar soul food southern studies Black diaspora \

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